| 英语单词 | wisp |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [wɪsp] 美 [wɪsp] |
| 中文释义 | n.小束;一缕;瘦小的人 v.扎成束;一缕缕地飘动 |
| 英语例句 | (1) She cut a wisp of hair off. (2) A wisp of hair straggled across her ear. (3) Sometimes, a wisp of cloud comes with a spell of rain. (4) She is a wisp of a girl. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 她剪掉了一束头发。 (2) 一束头发散落在她耳朵上。 (3) 有时,一片云采一片雨。 (4) 她是个纤弱的小姑娘。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A wisp is a thin bit or thread of something. Even after you put out a campfire, there may be little wisps of smoke in the air above it. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Tiny pieces of hair escaping your ponytail are wisps, and tufts of clouds or fog are also wisps. A more figurative kind of wisp, like a wisp of memory or sadness, is just the barest snippet of emotion. A wisp of a child is a tiny girl or boy, and a wisp of hay is used to dry a horse — this is actually the original, 14th century meaning of wisp, related to the Swedish visp, "bundle of hay." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](毛发的)缕,绺,小把 A wisp of hair is a small, thin, untidy bunch of it. [usu N
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](烟、云等的)缕 A wisp of something such as smoke or cloud is an amount of it in a long thin shape. [usu N
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